OneSearch connects with most of the Michael Schwartz Library's Research Databases, allowing you to search them all at once. OneSearch searches for books, eBooks, articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers, multimedia items, and more -- all in a single search!
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An empirical or primary research article reports on a study conducted by the authors. A review of the literature is an important step in any research study, but an empirical article goes on to describe the details of a specific study. This type of article:
Words to look for as clues include: analysis, study, investigation, examination, experiment, numbers of people or objects analyzed, control group, or survey.
* Literature reviews and meta-analyses also describe the authors' research method/methodology, focusing on their database search strategy and development of criteria for including or excluding individual study results. These articles are still secondary sources because they synthesize the findings of multiple research studies; the authors are not the primary researchers.